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New numbers from the Urban Institute's Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) point to some impressive gains in the number of uninsured non‒elderly (age 18-64) adults. According to the survey (here) the numbers are remarkable for several reasons:

80% of the survey respondents for Q12014 were prior to March 7 ‒ and don't include the full effect of the "surge" in Obamacare sign‒ups that occurred later in the month.

The uninsured rate fell by 2.7% (17.9% to 15.2%) since September 2013 (which was just prior to ACA's open enrollment start of October 1, 2013).

The estimates also don't include some of the ACA provisions that were implemented before 2013 (keeping dependents on health plans until age 26 and early state Medicaid expansions).

The chart included with the summary findings also reflects the difference between states that expanded Medicaid coverage and those that didn't.

The quarterly survey uses a national sample of about 7,500 adults. From the report:

States that implemented the ACA's Medicaid expansion saw a larger decline: their uninsurance rates for adults dropped 4.0 percentage points since September, compared with a drop of 1.5 percentage points for the non-expanding states. The average uninsurance rate for adults in the 24 non-expanding states was 18.1 percent in March 2014, well above the 12.4 percent average in the expansion states. Health Reform Monitoring Survey ‒ Sharon K. Long, Genevieve M. Kenney, Stephen Zuckerman, Douglas Wissoker, Dana Goin, Michael Karpman and Nathaniel Anderson

In a Rose Garden speech the day after the ACA's first open-enrollment period officially ended, the President highlighted some of the initial results with these remarks.

Last night, the first open-enrollment period under this law came to an end. And despite several lost weeks out of the gate because of problems with the website, 7.1 million Americans have now signed up for private insurance plans through these marketplaces ‒ 7.1.

Let me give you a sense of what this change has meant for millions of our fellow Americans. I’ll just give you a few examples. Sean Casey, from Solana Beach, California, always made sure to cover his family on the private market. But preexisting medical conditions meant his annual tab was over $30,000. The Affordable Care Act changed that. See, if you have a preexisting condition, like being a cancer survivor, or if you suffer chronic pain from a tough job, or even if you've just been charged more for being a woman ‒ you can no longer be charged more than anybody else. So this year, the Casey family’s premiums will fall from over $30,000 to under $9,000. President Barack Obama‒ Rose Garden, April 1, 2014 (full speech here)